It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
More George Jones Quotes
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow.
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There’s nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
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I’ve always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music,
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Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.
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I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
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If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
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The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.
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Some of them don’t have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don’t sell two million copies, you’re gone, you’re out of here.
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